Colouring special needs: Locating whiteness in NIMBY conflicts

Social and Cultural Geography

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 303-321

  Wilton, Robert D ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

NIMBY; Race; Racialization; Whiteness

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; NOT IN MY BACK YARD RESPONSE; RACIAL IDENTITY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 0141916521     PISSN: 14649365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1464936022000003541     Document Type: Article

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